Context. Spicules are elongated, jet-like structures that populate the solar chromosphere and are rooted in the lower solar atmosphere. In recent years, high-resolution observations and advanced numerical simulations have provided insights into their properties, structures, and dynamics. However, the formation mechanism of spicules, particularly

We use numerical mass density profiles from the TNG50 simulation to study the impact of gravitational milli-lensing by dark matter subhaloes on the images of lensed quasars. Specifically, we study the formation of subimages and the probability of their detection. For high-concentration density profiles, the mass determines the amplitude of the

In the gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, a background quasar is lensed by a galaxy cluster, hence the light from the quasar images travels mainly through the intracluster medium. Observations in the continuum emission and the broad line region detected variability due to microlensing in the multiple images of the quasar. In this work, we use the

Context. Cas OB5 is an OB association located at a distance of 2.5–3 kpc that intercepts the Perseus spiral arm. It carries a moderate amount of reddening (A V ~ 2–3 mag) and contains several well-known open clusters within its boundaries, such as King 12, NGC 7788, and NGC 7790. The availability of modern clustering algorithms, together with Gaia

Context. Metal-poor stars play a crucial role in understanding the nature and evolution of the first stellar generation in the Galaxy. Previously, asteroseismic characterisation of red-giant stars has relied on constraints from the global asteroseismic parameters and not the full spectrum of individual oscillation modes. Using the latter, we